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You know about the local mirror type in /etc/portage/mirrors right? |
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Well, that file could probably be used by you in many ways. Check it out. |
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--Iggy |
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Carlos Silva wrote: |
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>Hi guys, |
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>since the change of the eclass kernel-2 to make it use the subversion |
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>kernel patches that we no longer keep the kernel sources on our mirrors |
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>and they are downloaded from the kernel.org mirrors. What happends is |
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>that alot of people, including me, have traffic limits imposed by the |
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>IPS's. In my case, i have 4GB international traffic limit. In the most |
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>cases, the PT kernel.org mirror isn't "selected" as the mirror to |
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>download the kernel when we try to download a new kernel version so i |
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>end up making international traffic, thing that didn't happend when we |
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>had the sources on the mirrors. Besides that, in the case the of PT |
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>kernel.org mirror, it is very slow compared to some good distfiles |
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>mirrors we have here. |
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>So what i want to know is what you guys think if we get the kernel |
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>sources back in the mirrors. |
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